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With the ever-increasing usage of serverless computing in both industry and academia, it is essential to understand the mechanisms that power the underlying platforms. As serverless is more than ten years old, there are different platforms…

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The Internet is responsible for accelerating growth in several fields such as digital media, healthcare, the military. Furthermore, the Internet was founded on the principle of allowing clients to communicating with servers. However,…

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End-users can get functions-as-a-service from serverless platforms, which promise lower hosting costs, high availability, fault tolerance, and dynamic flexibility for hosting individual functions known as microservices. Machine learning…

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Elastic scaling is one of the central benefits provided by serverless platforms, and requires that they scale resource up and down in response to changing workloads. Serverless platforms scale-down resources by terminating previously…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Kalev Alpernas , Aurojit Panda , Mooly Sagiv

The development of cloud infrastructures inspires the emergence of cloud-native computing. As the most promising architecture for deploying microservices, serverless computing has recently attracted more and more attention in both industry…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Zijun Li , Linsong Guo , Jiagan Cheng , Quan Chen , Bingsheng He , Minyi Guo

Serverless computing provides just-in-time infrastructure provisioning with rapid elasticity and a finely-grained pricing model. As full control of resource allocation is in the hands of the cloud provider and applications only consume…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Natalie Carl , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

The serverless computing paradigm promises many desirable properties for cloud applications - low-cost, fine-grained deployment, and management-free operation. Consequently, the paradigm has underwent rapid growth: there currently exist…

Data lakes hold a growing amount of cold data that is infrequently accessed, yet require interactive response times. Serverless functions are seen as a way to address this use case since they offer an appealing alternative to maintaining…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Simon Kassing , Ingo Müller , Gustavo Alonso

Serverless computing is an emerging service model in distributed computing systems. The term captures cloud-based event-driven distributed application design and stems from its completely resource-transparent deployment model, i.e.…

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Data processing systems are increasingly deployed in the cloud. While monolithic systems run fully on virtual servers, recent systems embrace cloud infrastructure and utilize the disaggregation of compute and storage to scale them…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Thomas Bodner , Theo Radig , David Justen , Daniel Ritter , Tilmann Rabl

Serverless computing has become an important model in cloud computing and influenced the design of many applications. Here, we provide our perspective on how the recent landscape of serverless computing for scientific applications looks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Maciej Malawski , Bartosz Balis

Serverless computing along with Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is forming a new computing paradigm that is anticipated to found the next generation of cloud systems. The popularity of this paradigm is due to offering a highly transparent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Chavit Denninnart , Thanawat Chanikaphon , Mohsen Amini Salehi

Machine learning (ML) is an important part of modern data science applications. Data scientists today have to manage the end-to-end ML life cycle that includes both model training and model serving, the latter of which is essential, as it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Yuncheng Wu , Tien Tuan Anh Dinh , Guoyu Hu , Meihui Zhang , Yeow Meng Chee , Beng Chin Ooi

Serverless is an emerging cloud computing paradigm that facilitates developers to focus solely on the application logic rather than provisioning and managing the underlying infrastructure. The inherent characteristics such as scalability,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Muhammad Hamza , Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Kari Smolander

Serverless computing has gained a significant traction in recent times because of its simplicity of development, deployment and fine-grained billing. However, while implementing complex services comprising databases, file stores, or more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Bishakh Chandra Ghosh , Sourav Kanti Addya , Nishant Baranwal Somy , Shubha Brata Nath , Sandip Chakraborty , Soumya K Ghosh

Serverless computing is a popular cloud computing paradigm that has found widespread adoption across various online workloads. It allows software engineers to develop cloud applications as a set of functions (called serverless functions).…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Jianshu Zhao , Federica Sarro , Haodi Ping , Ying Zhang , Shangguang Wang , Xuanzhe Liu

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm that has been applied to various domains, including machine learning, scientific computing, video processing, etc. To develop serverless computing-based software applications…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Xuanzhe Liu

Serverless computing has gained popularity due to its cost efficiency, ease of deployment, and enhanced scalability. However, in serverless environments, servers are initiated only after receiving a request, leading to increased response…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Vincent Hsieh , Jerry Chou

This paper explores resource allocation in serverless cloud computing platforms and proposes an optimization approach for autoscaling systems. Serverless computing relieves users from resource management tasks, enabling focus on application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Harold Ship , Evgeny Shindin , Chen Wang , Diana Arroyo , Asser Tantawi

Serverless computing has emerged as an attractive paradigm due to the efficiency of development and the ease of deployment without managing any underlying infrastructure. Nevertheless, serverless computing approaches face numerous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Emilian Simion , Yuandou Wang , Hsiang-ling Tai , Uraz Odyurt , Zhiming Zhao